Re:Fake Meat Was Supposed to Save the World. It Became Just ...
by noduerme on Thursday January 19, 2023 @04:55AM
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This is a hilarious comment and definitely worthy of being flagged for starting a flame war, but I'm totally behind the fact that you've laid bare these questions and opened them to debate.
My own response would be: Is it possible that if every version of schadenfreude and psychopathic antipathy toward other humans is deeply embedded in the fake-meat-making process and it still can be commercially successful and serve several purposes ethically/environmentally/economically if it's popularized, do the impure individual motives outweigh the greater good?
Because the poor will eat it if it's cheaper; the rich will eat it if it's more ethical or if it's dolled up more expensively; the outcomes touted by the environmentalists will be the same whether they do it out of love for cows or hatred for mankind, won't they?
My own response would be: Is it possible that if every version of schadenfreude and psychopathic antipathy toward other humans is deeply embedded in the fake-meat-making process and it still can be commercially successful and serve several purposes ethically/environmentally/economically if it's popularized, do the impure individual motives outweigh the greater good?
Because the poor will eat it if it's cheaper; the rich will eat it if it's more ethical or if it's dolled up more expensively; the outcomes touted by the environmentalists will be the same whether they do it out of love for cows or hatred for mankind, won't they?